Germany is preparing 24 new centres to assess young volunteers for military service as Berlin expands the Bundeswehr under new conscription measures linked to NATO goals and the Ukraine war.
Germany Sets Up Draft Centres
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India proves UAV-Launched Precision Guided Missile
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The ULPGM-V3 has three modular warhead options including anti-armour to destroy modern armoured vehicles equipped with Rolled Homogeneous Armour with Explosive Reactive Armour, Penetration-cum-Blast warhead with anti-bunker application and pre-fragmentation warhead.
Pushback against conscription plans in Germany
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Economic researchers and partners in the ruling coalition led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz have warned of immense economic costs and legal difficulties that could result from plans for military conscription proposed by Defence Minister Boris Pistorius in June in an attempt to boost the numbers of the German armed forces.
Germany to surrender key airbase in Niger after talks fail
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While French troops had left the military-run country last year, the last U.S. troops are also expected to imminently depart the country, with Russian troops already on site to take their place after creating a presence in Mali and Burkina Faso, also taken over by the military.
How to solve a problem like OFB
A new study anticipates higher prices, fewer products and reduced manpower
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A wargame conducted last month anticipates higher prices, fewer products and reduced manpower as a result of the corporatisation of process of India’s Ordnance Factory Board that traces its origins to the early 18th century and employs an estimated 80,000-strong workforce.
No FDI hike in strategic partnership projects: MoD
Chapter 07 projects will not see hike in max. automatic FDI to 74%
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Director General (Acquisitions) Apurva Chandra clarified at a webinar on Friday that ‘We have already launched two programs on it (Chapter 07) and we don’t foresee a change in this (FDI limits)’.
#RafaleScam: The Crucial Date
The date reveals what was known, to whom, and when
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Part III of this analysis examines the implications of the single most interesting data point to emerge from the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India. This date has never been mentioned in earlier media reports, and what is almost startlingly significant is not only what transpired on this date, but the fact of the date, itself.
How the MMRCA was killed #RafaleScam
And the Eurofighter was shafted by interpretation of costs
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Part II of this analysis examines how the defence ministry’s Contract Negotiation Committee (CNC) interpreted an inflated cost analysis of the Eurofighter bid and undervalued the cost of the Rafale bid, five times.
#RafaleScam: The CAG’s History
How the game was fixed for the French fighter
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Part I of this three-part analysis is a contextual reading of the February 2019 CAG report and outlines how the IAF’s MMRCA contest was fixed to get the Rafale back into the contest after it was rejected, three times, and how the threats to a Rafale win were removed.
MoD rationalises delivery schedules
Delivery window to begin from date of advance payment
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While earlier the period allowed to vendors for delivery began from the date of contract, it will now begin from the date of advance payment. The delivery schedule and invocation of any late delivery penalty clause will be governed by the date of advance payment.
India’s VSHORAD program off flight path
Defence ministry faces problematic result after 20 years of shopping around
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Even after two decades since the acquisition case, the Very Short Range Air Defence (VSHORAD) search has seen a system absent from trials and failing trials, being passed as technically compliant and ending up as, apparently, the cheapest. Also problematic is the difficulty its purchase could pose by provoking U.S. sanctions under their CAATSA.
Navy increases captains’ tenure to 08 years
The move is being perceived to preclude time-scale captains' promotions to commodore
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The Indian Navy has increased the mandatory tenure of captains to eight years before officers can be eligible for promotion to the rank of commodore. As a result of this, captains in the navy will spend an additional three years in the rank – up from the existing five-year tenure, before they are eligible to being considered for promotion to commodore.
MoD issues export wishlist to industry
This includes fighters, tanks, artillery, UAVs, small arms...
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The list of 51 items proposed consists of a range of equipment and includes fighter aircraft, amphibian aircraft, tanks, artillery, small arms among others.
Book launch, defence minister, controversy. Repeat.
India's defence ministers could consider rote-learning their nuclear doctrine
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Taken literally, the defence minister’s words could have signified a change in India’s nuclear deterrence policy, which is structured around No First Use followed by ‘massive retaliation’.
Why the defence ministry is wrong in its Rafale defence
Ministry fails to explain why it didn't ask for a competitive Eurofighter quote
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The defence ministry has provided a singular and unconvincing defence of why it did not ask for, or entertain, a competing commercial offer for the Eurofighter Typhoon pitched by Airbus.
